Milestones, Apr. 10, 1950

Married. John ("Pick up the check") Meyer, 43, Howard Hughes's
free-spending wartime pressagent, whose Sybaritic expense account was
the subject of a Senate investigation into government contract-letting;
and Patti Lydon, 24, Hollywood brunette; both for the second time; in
Las1 Vegas, Nev.

Married. Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, 64, head of the Methodist Council of Bishops
(he performed the marriage ceremony of the Alben.Barkleys), onetime
president of the Federal Council of Churches; and Mrs. Hugh A.
Carithers, 56, a widow of Winder, Ga.; in Greenwich, Conn. Bishop
Holt's first wife died in 1948.